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Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

This whole one game playoff thing is certainly a bit weird. It's going to be a crappy feeling for the team that loses.

Hope it's exciting.

Yeah. Don't know about the Orioles and Rangers but the Braves and Cards are both using their most legit pitchers. Can you imagine how bad its going to suck if one of those pitchers has one of "those" games. And basically loses the game in the first couple of innings

Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

Yeah. Don't know about the Orioles and Rangers but the Braves and Cards are both using their most legit pitchers. Can you imagine how bad its going to suck if one of those pitchers has one of "those" games. And basically loses the game in the first couple of innings

It's also weird that the high seeded teams have to open their series on the road, I.E. Reds going to SF and Yankees going to Balt/Texas. I don't know how I feel about that. I think the 2-2-1 method was a great way to do it. I feel that the team with the better record earned the right to open the series at home and gain the early momentum.

Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

It's also weird that the high seeded teams have to open their series on the road, I.E. Reds going to SF and Yankees going to Balt/Texas. I don't know how I feel about that. I think the 2-2-1 method was a great way to do it. I feel that the team with the better record earned the right to open the series at home and gain the early momentum.

I agree, I also dislike the 2-3-2 format. I sorta feel that at no point if a team wins its home games should they be down in a series. Let alone start on the road.

Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

I'm feeling a lot better about their chances than I did a month or two ago. I think Ichirio is going to come up with some big hits for us in the postseason. It will also be nice to have Pettitte, who was retired last year. Balt/Texas will be tough though, and the Yanks have had a pretty poor track record in the ALDS over the past 7 or so years. Let's hope for the best. I've been impressed with how they have battled over the last few weeks.

Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

Three issues I have with the "controversial" call from last night:

First, it's called the INFIELD FLY RULE and they called it in the OUTFIELD. To me, anything beyond the base path, where the infielder has to leave his defensive position to travel towards the outfield to make the play, that rule is no longer valid. I know that's not the way it is being interpreted here, but that's the way it SHOULD be.

Second, even when it's used correctly, the rule is on the books to benefit the runners, not the fielders. Clearly that wasn't the case here.

Third, when a team chooses to play under protest, as the Braves did, the MLB rule states that team has 24 hours to file a formal written protest. Period. There is no provision for this new wild card play in game. Meaning that MLB didn't address this situation specifically. After the game, Joe Torre ruled immediately denying the Braves protest and therefore their chance the file the formal written protest. Basically Torre made up a new rule on the spot addressing this new wild card situation because of the timing involved.

Now, having said all that, do I believe that this call cost the Braves the game? No, I don't. Continually failing to bat runners in scoring position in and allowing three unearned runs is what lost them the game.

Re: 2012 MLB playoffs thread

I won't feel worse if them upset the Reds because I have deemed them garbage--I think they are. I thought their World Series winning team was garbage, frankly. Catching fire at the right time means everything in baseball. See: Cardinals last two WS wins, Giants in 2010, etc. That loss just pissed me off.